'Spend your energy on three elements of ecology: natural history, quantitative reasoning, and communication.'

Today is #internationalleopardday

Here's the video I took at Jhalana Leopard Park in Jaipur, India.

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I've seen a trend to have a last paragraph listing all packages and functions in the methods section.

I'm not sure about it.

Is this better than mentioning the function/package you used while explaining your specific analyses?

A satellite image of Santa Marta, Colombia, has been cited nearly 50 times as 'Marta'.

This is why you should always check your sources!

Read this abstract if you love birds and their songs.

I do not see any new perspectives or insights from this review paper to merit publishing in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

For instance, the authors mention accounting for detection probabilities- something that we know from decades ago.

La plataforma Birds of The World: Cornell Lab ahora es gratuita por tiempo indefinido en Colombia. Sólo se necesita tener un usuario de eBird para acceder.
ACO RNOACOL Andrés Cuervo daniel cadena diegocolombiabirding 🦉Diego Cueva🦜 Instituto de Ciencias Naturales - UNAL
Por favor divulgar ampliamente!!

Google Scholar just made it easier to read PDFs online.

With the new PDF Reader extension, you can navigate the PDF with a table of contents, preview the references in-line, or click in-text figure mentions to see them.

Just go to the Chrome Web store and install it for free.

The Eyelash Palm-Pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii): Five new species and revalidation of three.

A nice locality map for the Brazilian three-banded armadillo showcasing historical and more recent records in the northeast of the country.

An important resource to consider where to publish your next paper in Ecology and Evolution: dafnee.isem-evolution.fr

How conservation scientists should be rewarded in Academia.

Un buen esquema metodológico para el análisis de la diversidad biológica.

Fuente: Cultid-Medina C, Escobar F (2019).

Ecologists estimating population parameters for different species.

Un nuevo artículo de mi colega Pablo Jose Negret sobre el rol de las áreas protegidas para la conservación de la biodiversidad.

Pablo es uno de los expertos en Colombia sobre áreas protegidas, deforestación e impactos en la fauna silvestre

Lectura muy recomendada.

Amig@s latin@s, Estoy apoyando al Open Climate Campaign para mejorar el acceso a datos climáticos.

Pregunta: ¿Que tan fácil o difícil es acceder a datos locales de precipitación y temperatura en sus países?

Les agradezco contestar la encuesta y escribir sus apreciaciones.

The beauty bias can threaten the conservation of the less 'sexy' species.

Animals with enhanced images receive more (hypothetical) donations.

Research led by Meghan Shaw 🦘

Cali será la sede de la COP 16 de Biodiversidad. 🍃

Nos inclinamos por la región más biodiversa de Colombia, el Pacífico colombiano.